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Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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That's when you make do with WiFi.
You do know that laptops no longer even come with those Ethernet ports, right?
You do know that most places use docking stations that connect laptops to multiple screens and... you guessed it... ethernet.
My last job was with a Fortune 100 technical company in a sales position. No one used a docking station and no one bothered with an Ethernet cable. Neither did any of the customers we dealt with. People with desktop computers were wired up but most everyone else used wifi all the time.
Not my last job with a Fortune 100 company. Nearly all of us used wifi all the time. Our engineering and software development groups did use desktop computers with Gig E though.
Sorry to hear your company doesn't care about productivity.
We get a second screen, power, and stable internet connection via docking stations.
to be fair, they did say sales
My company produces networking equipment and actually knows how to implement reliable wireless and wired networks. If your company's wifi network is unstable perhaps hiring a competent network design and implementation company would have been more cost effective than throwing more equipment at the problem.
Yeah, go ahead and tell me (a sysadmin) how wired network which is just switches and cables is 'throwing more equipment at the problem' compared to hundreds of wifi access points.
Wireless gives you portability but if you're going to sit down and work then wired network is always better than wireless. That's a physics thing.
it's called a "dongle" and it's named after a guy named don. No srs look it up.
Lordy, I ain't never heard about one of them before. You're a genius!
Now look around your office and see how many people are using them. There's not a single person in my sales office, whether sales or engineering that bothers with a dongle because we actually have a well designed, fast wifi network. It's called "reliability" and you and your company should look that up.
From the responses here it sounds like many companies need to do the same.
Yeah if you are forced to deal with a shitty Apple
Long time since you bought a laptop, or even looked at them? Even most Dell and Thinkpad mobile workstations no longer include an Ethernet port.
They include USB-C and most docking stations have... ethernet.
And in the offices I worked in nobody had a docking station. They aren't everywhere.
Welcome to the future! Standard everywhere.